A recent Youtube Web update has added a canvas whenever the seek bar is visible, an HTML5 canvas pops up. This was not asked for and not needed. If you disable canvases for privacy, this will cause a horrific red bad to cover half the screen until you hide the seekbar. Canvases can be used for fingerprinting, which I’m sure Google is doing here.

  • KairosEnglish
    2•5 months ago

    Google uselessly uses the canvas for its reverse image search. And I do mean uselessly - The image you upload is put onto the canvas, then immediately relayed to the server and never used again.

      • KairosEnglish
        0•5 months ago

        Yes because as we all know that’s too hard for Google to achieve.

          • KairosEnglish
            0•5 months ago

            Yes because as we all know 100% of browsers have a canvas.

            • lime!English
              1•5 months ago

              which ones don’t?

              also, good goalpost moving.

              • KairosEnglish
                1•5 months ago

                LibreWolf

                TinEye seems to have no problem with this. It seems weird to argue that something that doesn’t work on every browser should be used because the alternative doesn’t work on every browser.

                Google could easily do both. Using JS if canvas fails.

                • lime!English
                  2•5 months ago

                  librewolf has canvas turned off, because it’s fingerprintable. it’s still in the firefox codebase. all major browsers support canvas and have for more than 10 fifteen years.

                  also, canvas is literally a JS API what are you talking about